November 28, 1885

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Features

The Original Reis Telephone

Shell Fisheries of Connecticut

Sugar Cane Mills

Is the Panama Route Practicable?

Progress of the Telephone Litigation

White Bronze

Photographic Notes - November 28, 1885

Improved Sample Box

Cutting Apparatus for Mowers and Reapers

Improved Two Wheeled Vehicle

Washing Machine

The St. John Steel Cantilever Bridge

Improved Grinding Machine

Donald and Waddell's Dry Dock

An Improved Wash-Bottle for Chemical Laboratories

By H. B. Battle

A Convenient Article for Hospitals and Sick Rooms

Improved "Noble" Wool Comber

Agricultural Inventions - November 28, 1885

Mechanical Inventions - November 28, 1885

Miscellaneous Inventions - November 28, 1885

Special - November 28, 1885

A Banker and his Friends

Engineering Inventions - November 28, 1885

Departments

Recommended

New Books and Publications - November 28, 1885

Departments

Business and Personal - November 28, 1885

Notes and Queries - November 28, 1885

Index of Inventions - November 28, 1885

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